Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Use complete_action's todo list to do the rebase

> This can be seen as a continuation of ag/reduce-rewriting-todo.
>
> Currently, complete_action() releases its todo list before calling
> sequencer_continue(), which reloads the todo list from the disk.  This
> series removes this useless round trip.
>
> Patches 1, 2, and 3 originally come from a series meaning to improve
> rebase.missingCommitsCheck[0].  In the original series, I wanted to
> check for missing commits in read_populate_todo(), so a warning could be
> issued after a `rebase --continue' or an `exec' commands.  But, in the
> case of the initial edit, it is already checked in complete_action(),
> and would be checked a second time in sequencer_continue() (a caller of
> read_populate_todo()).  So I hacked up sequencer_continue() to accept a
> pointer to a todo list, and if not null, would skip the call to
> read_populate_todo().  (This was really ugly, to be honest.)  Some
> issues arose with git-prompt.sh[1], hence 1, 2 and 3.
>
> Patch 5 is a new approach to what I did first.  Instead of bolting a new
> parameter to sequencer_continue(), this makes complete_action() calling
> directly pick_commits().
>
> This is based on 4c86140027 ("Third batch").
>
> Changes since v1:
>
>  - Rewording of patches 1, 2, 4 and 5 according to comments made by
>    Phillip Wood, Junio C Hamano and Johannes Schindelin.
>
> The tip of this series is tagged as "reduce-todo-list-cont-v2" at
> https://github.com/agrn/git.
>
> [0] http://public-inbox.org/git/20190717143918.7406-1-alban.gruin@gmail.com/
> [1] http://public-inbox.org/git/1732521.CJWHkCQAay@andromeda/
>
> Alban Gruin (5):
>   sequencer: update `total_nr' when adding an item to a todo list
>   sequencer: update `done_nr' when skipping commands in a todo list
>   sequencer: move the code writing total_nr on the disk to a new
>     function
>   rebase: fill `squash_onto' in get_replay_opts()
>   sequencer: directly call pick_commits() from complete_action()
>
>  builtin/rebase.c |  5 +++++
>  sequencer.c      | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
>  2 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> Diff-intervalle contre v1 :
> 1:  d177b0de1a ! 1:  9215b191c7 sequencer: update `total_nr' when adding an item to a todo list
>     @@ Metadata
>       ## Commit message ##
>          sequencer: update `total_nr' when adding an item to a todo list
>      
>     -    `total_nr' is the total amount of items, done and toto, that are in a
>     -    todo list.  But unlike `nr', it was not updated when an item was
>     -    appended to the list.
>     +    `total_nr' is the total number of items, counting both done and todo,